As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President ...

Despite the president’s promises to crack down on high-level corruption, the pressure on his government continues to build.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn’t set foot in Manila since 2018. His invitation to return comes with conditions attached.

Well-known personalities in the Philippines are often revealed to have ties or relations to other influential figures in certain industries, such as the Barretto clan in Filipino showbiz, the Filipino ...

A new survey shows Duterte-Carpio likely regaining momentum as Marcos grapples with waning confidence in his leadership.

When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022, it was thanks in part to a political alliance he struck with his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and his ...

Political analysts say persistent natural disasters could sustain public frustrations and anti-government protests.

Cynthia Villar, a two-term senator, addresses a political rally in Las Piñas in the run-up to last month’s Philippine midterm election. Villar was one of several prominent political dynasts to lose ...

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) stands on the cusp of its first parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2025. The shake-up within its interim government, the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Philippine politics have historically been dominated by a handful of political ...

OUR country’s confronting sustained challenges to national security arising from war risks driven by China’s gray-zone ...

Gen Zs in several Asian countries launch an online war against political "nepo babies" who flaunt their wealth on social ...